{"product_id":"so-long-see-you-tomorrow-national-book-award-winner","title":"So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner","description":"Winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howells Medal\nFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\nWith a new introduction by Ann Patchett\n\n\"A small, perfect novel.\" ―Washington Post Book World\n\nIn this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try.\n\nOn a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teen-agers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered.\n\nFifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who had the misfortune of being the son of Wil-son’s killer and who in the months before witnessed things that William Maxwell’s narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss and explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try.\n\n\"William Maxwell is one of the past half-century's unmistakably great novelists.\" ―Village Voice\n\n\"What a lovely book, utterly unlike any other in shape I have ever read.\" ―John Updike\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0679767207\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 31UI560008EN_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:William Maxwell\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43280541614141,"sku":"31UI560008EN_ns","price":6.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0679767207-0.jpg?v=1781731269","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/so-long-see-you-tomorrow-national-book-award-winner","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}